Re: knfs quota fix, and some locking ramblings.
Anders Hammarquist (iko@cd.chalmers.se)
Sat, 10 Apr 1999 14:37:30 +0200
> > > > Then, I was also told that files marked for mandatory locking were
> > > > not openable via NFS (even if they weren't regular files). The first
> > >
> > > This is correct
> >
> > Huh? That means (the admittedly rather useless, but still common)
> > setgid directories without group write are inacessible. They get
> > created that way in a setgid directory if you umask group execute.
>
> Mandatory lock doesn't apply to a directory. It has other meanings.
> Im not arguing that test is wrong when the file is a directory.
Ok, I read it as you implying that the (original) test was correct.
Incidentally, the locking problem turned out to be a userspace problem
on the alpha on closer inspection. <whine> why can't people write
code that works on 64-bit machines </whine>
/Anders
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